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Industry professionals and former customers alike know that something special is in the wind whenever Ottawa architect Christopher Simmonds and builder Roy Nandram of RND Construction Ltd. get together on a new home construction project.

For the past 25 years these two men and their teams have built sterling reputations on the back of their commitment to using environmentally responsible design and construction practices on the homes they renovate and build. Their holistic approach focuses on the way modern families can live in a healthy environment that ensures a generous supply of daylight and fresh air inside a home that is in balance with its surroundings.

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“It’s about how the spaces feel, and what sort of spaces feel comfortable to people,” says Simmonds, who incorporates the harmonizing principles of feng shui in his work. “I’m very interested in the relationship of buildings to their natural environment.”

In addition to their long list of individual industry awards, Simmonds and Nandram together with their companies have won the People’s Choice Award for housing design at the annual Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association Housing Design Awards for the last three years running. It is an impressive achievement.

Their latest collaboration is an upscale enclave that promises everything one might expect from talented construction professionals performing at the top of their game – healthy homes in a healthy environment. The planned Riverpark Green infill development of four environmentally sustainable single-family homes in an established neighbourhood is close to schools and just minutes away from the Rideau River and Mooney’s Bay Park.

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Construction at Riverpark Green is scheduled to begin later this spring for fall occupancy, and over the next few months lucky homebuyers will learn what it means to work with Ottawa’s premier environmental home construction visionaries. RND Construction president Nandram explains: “What we are doing which is different from every other builder is that we are saying, let’s design your new green home together.”

Homebuyers will actually sit down with the architects and builders to customize the interior design of their new Riverpark Green homes on Fielding Drive. Whether it is a modern loft look with concrete floors that appeals, or a more traditional ambience with oak plank flooring, pretty much anything is possible.

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“We have established a general framework,” says architect Simmonds, “but after that it is wide open for the customer. We can customize these homes considerably. Whatever the customer is keen on, we can provide. There’s always a way of building what people want in a green, energy-efficient way.”

The four-bedroom homes start with an Energy Star certification which Nandram says is 20 to 25 per cent more energy efficient than the building code requirement. Customers have the option to upgrade all the way up to LEED Gold standard for only a modest increase in price. The return on green investment can be substantial in terms of energy cost savings which can boost a home’s eventual resale value.

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Everything from the use of high-efficiency technologies to the low-impact placement of the driveways has been considered in reducing the environmental footprint of these 2,500 to 2,900-sq. ft. contemporary homes on their 60×100-ft. treed lots.

“Riverpark Green was planned from Day 1 to be environmentally friendly,” says Nandram. “The site has a lot of mature trees, so we planned the layout of the houses and driveways to avoid cutting trees down. It will look like we’ve been there forever.”

Interested homebuyers will likely want to move quickly to take advantage of this extraordinary offer to customize a new green home under the guidance of such an accomplished team of professionals.

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“If you go to other green communities and buy a house,” says Nandram, “you take what they give you. Here you have the opportunity to be part of the design process.”

To learn more about the green living opportunities at Riverpark Green, call 613-523-8598 or email info@rndconstruction.ca. Visit RND Construction and Christopher Simmonds Architect online at www.rndconstruction.ca and www.csarchitect.com.

This story was produced by the Ottawa Citizen’s advertising department on behalf of RND Construction for commercial purposes. Postmedia’s editorial departments had no involvement in the creation of this content.

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